1786 • Symphony No. 39‚ K. 543 - E flat Major - 1788 • Symphony No. 40‚ K. 550 - g minor - 1788 • Symphony No. 41 Jupiter‚ K. 551 - C Major - 1788 Opera • La finta semplice‚ K. 51 - 1768 • Mitridate‚ re di Ponto ‚ K. 87 - 1770 • Die Entführung aus dem Serail‚ K. 384 - 1782 • Le nozze di Figaro‚ K. 492 - 1786 • Così fan tutte‚ K. 588 - 1790 • Die Zauberflöte‚ K. 620 - 1791 Requiem • Requiem Mass‚ K. 626 - d minor - 1791 Bibliography: Cummings‚ R. (n.d.). Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Retrieved
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baptism itself) did not take place until two months later. His father‚ Giovanni Battista‚ a barber before becoming a professional violinist‚ taught him to play violin and then toured Venice playing the violin with his young son. Giovanni Battista was one of the founders of the Sovvegno dei musicisti di Santa Cecilia‚ a sort of trade union for musicians and composers. The president of the association was Giovanni Legrenzi‚ the maestro di cappella at St. Mark’s Basilica and noted early Baroque composer.
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established himself in Vienna as a struggling freelance musician. In 1782‚ he married Constanze Weber‚ against his domineering father’s wishes. He reached the peak of his career in the late 1780s with his three comic operas (The Marriage of Figaro‚ Don Giovanni‚ and Così fan tutte) on librettos by Lorenzo da Ponte. Although in poor health‚ Mozart continued to produce masterpieces for the Viennese public‚ including his Clarinet Concerto (he was one of the first to compose for this new instrument) and his
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sculpture due to his actions‚ character‚ and realistic human expressions. He is famous for including physical distortions‚ making things purposely “ugly”‚ in his work for artistic effect. Donatello was born as Donato di Niccolo Bardi in 1386 in Florence‚ Italy. He was the son Nicolo di Betto Bardi‚ a wool comber. He was educated in the house of the Martelli family. Little is known about his early life‚ but like many of the other artists of his time‚ he was believed to be a homosexual. At the age of
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Claudio Monteverdi Claudio Giovanni Antonio Monteverdi – 29 November 1643) was an Italian composer‚ gambist‚ singer and Roman Catholic priest. Monteverdi’s work‚ often regarded as revolutionary‚ marked the change from the Renaissance style of music to that of the Baroque period. He developed two styles of composition – the heritage of Renaissance polyphony and the new basso continuo technique of the Baroque. Monteverdi wrote one of the earliest operas‚ L’Orfeo‚ a novel work that is the earliest
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(accompanied monody) Giulio Caccini. Le nuove musiche; “recitar cantando‚ cantar recitando” Jacopo Peri Camerata Fiorentina Basso continuo Theorbo Strophic aria Ritornello Obbligato instruments Favola in musica Week 2/Chapter 5-6 Maestro di capella Commedia del Arte Opera buffa Public opera Stile concitato Lament (on ground bass) Teatro San Cassiano/1637 Castrati Week 3/Chapter 9. Benigne de Bacilly Philippe Quinault Académie Royale de Musique Tragédie en musique Air Lully’s
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During the two hundred years between 1400 and 1600‚ Europe witnessed an astonishing revival of drawing‚ fine art painting‚ sculpture and architecture centred in Italy‚ where artists began to look back to the way in which Greek and Roman artists had worked. Not many classical paintings had survived‚ but there were descriptions from which artists tried to copy them. Those two centuries which we now refer to as the Renaissance (Rinascimento) was given this name (French for ’rebirth’) as a result of
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after Marquette died and his canoe capsized -fishermen saved him but his notes were ruined so he wrote things down based on his memory Giovanni Da Verrazzano Born in 1485 Died 1528 Born in Val Di Greve Italy Starting exploring at early age Egypt and Syria were the first two places he explored Went to France and met the King Between 1522‚ Giovanni convinced the King that he would undertake a voyage conquest to gain riches from the new world
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[and] paid the King ’s budget‚ ’ (http://american_almanac.tripod.com/pbgbardi.htm‚ Privatization ’ section‚ para 3‚ Retrieved November 27‚ 2006)‚ which clearly shows the extent of their wealth. This wealth they used to retain the services of Giotto di Bondone to paint a score of frescoes for their chapel at Santa Croce (http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9065572‚ Retrieved November 27‚ 2006)‚ including the famous Death and Ascension of Saint Francis ’‚ and also to have Donatello make the Crucifix
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From the mid-13th to 14th century the interaction of the Gothic‚ Byzantine‚ and antique Roman art‚ in the work of many outstanding individuals ‚ created a recognizably national culture in Italy (Barasch 14). In his frescoes and panel paintings‚ Giotto di Bondone revolutionized Italian art‚ developing a naturalism and drama that marks the first signs of the Renaissance (Marx). Though many artists were influenced by Giotto‚ such as Bernardo Daddi‚ his advances were not fully developed for a century. At
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